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Definition of Cottons
1. cotton [v] - See also: cotton
Lexicographical Neighbors of Cottons
Literary usage of Cottons
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh, Second Marquess of by Robert Stewart Castlereagh (1850)
"That the English can undersell the Irish by 50 per cent.; that the consumers of
Ireland pay 50 per cent. more for Irish cottons than if they imported them ..."
2. Art in Industry by Charles Russell Richards (1922)
"PRINTED cottons Designs for printed cottons are sub- NATURE OF DESIGNS ject ...
cottons, being less expensive than silks and used by more varied classes of ..."
3. A Dictionary of Applied Chemistry by Thomas Edward Thorpe (1921)
"American cottons.—The ordinary Upland cotton is fairly generally considered to
... Egyptian cottons.—The Egyptian cottons probably cannot be referred to any ..."
4. Annual Report on the Statistics of Manufactures by Massachusetts Bureau of Statistics (1897)
"Acushnet Mill Corporation, cottons, made plans for erection of new weave shed.
... Mount Pleasant Mills Corporation, cottons, voted to sell property at ..."
5. Economics: An Introduction for the General Reader by Henry Clay (1918)
"... cottons and coarse cottons better than Germany, but has a greater advantage
over Germany in producing fine cottons than in producing coarse cottons, ..."
6. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1888)
"The cottons of tho New and those of the Old World constitute the two great typical
divisions of the kinds most known to commerce—these are the Oriental and ..."
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